Prairie Eco-Thrifter
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
Who cooks at home anymore, many people eat out. Even if you do cook at home, have you ever worn an apron? They were used to protect clothing while cooking – to keep grease splatters and spills contained on the apron. Most clothing comes out of the dryer wrinkle free. Grease guns. As my Aunt M.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Consider the household products you buy – reduce the toxic chemicals in your home and improve the health of your family and the planet. People lived happy and healthy lives before the advent of the huge range of cleaning products that currently adorn our supermarket shelves; their clothes, bodies and homes were perfectly clean as well.
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Family Balance Sheet
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
We stopped buying stuff. No new clothes, no vacation, no extra anything. We started cooking at home more, a big issue for us was eating out. We started cooking at home more, a big issue for us was eating out. So we would cook at home and take leftovers for lunch the next day. I am very happy.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
MAY 1, 2012
What about holidays, cars, homes, designer clothes, retirement? Then a friend told me how she learnt about delayed gratification – putting off buying stuff until she could afford to pay cash. Bobbi started cooking at home instead of always dining out. “I I discovered I really love to cook. So, dream big.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
We shopped at garage sales, turned down the heat, combined errands to use less gas, didn’t buy a lot of prepared food, cooked at home and the like. We mowed the grass, made our clothes, cleaned house, cooked , and fixed broken stuff. We didn’t have a clothes dryer. Peggy: Oh yes!
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JUNE 14, 2012
This can be as simple as forgoing dinner out sometimes and cooking at home more; taking your lunch from home sometimes instead of always buying it; and the oldie but goodie – giving up one expensive Starbucks coffee a day. One of the simplest things you can do is to educate yourself about financial matters.
Family Balance Sheet
APRIL 12, 2016
Once I got home from that money changing event at my grandparents’ house, my best friend told me about this financial series she and her husband had been going through at church called Financial Peace University (Dave Ramsey). I was very excited about it and ended up buying Dave Ramsey’s book, The Total Money Makeover.
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